AWS re:invent 2013 - recap and highlights
Advanced Amazon Web Services MeetupDecember 3, 2013!!!!!Peter Sankauskas Answers for AWS@pas256 @Answers4AWS
Introductions
• Name
• Role
• Company
• How you use AWS
Next Meetup
• Tuesday January 21
• Anki
• Architecture & design patterns
• Hosted at their office
• Food and drinks
• RSVP early
Keynotes
Steve Ballmer Remember this?
Enterprise! Enterprise! Enterprise! Enterprise!
Amazon WorkSpaces• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud
• Limited Preview
• 2 Types
• Standard - $35/user/month
• 1 vCPU, 3.75 GiB Memory, 50 GB User Storage
• Performance - $60/user/month
• 2 vCPU, 7.5 GiB Memory, 100 GB
• 2 Options
• Regular
• Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer 9, Firefox, 7-Zip, Adobe Flash, JRE
• Plus (+ $15/user/month)
• Microsoft Office Professional 2010, Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Services
• Windows 7
• Login and use from any device
• Mac laptop, iPad, Andriod, Kindle etc
IAM supports SAML
• Single Sign on for AWS web console
• Also works for API
Trusted Advisor
• New UI
• New checks
• Will recommend PIOPS for standard EBS volumes
• Business level support needed
• That’s 10% of your monthly AWS bill
Amazon AppStream
• Run and render your application on EC2 instances
• Stream the rendered output to any device
• Limited Preview
• Application must be able to run on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
• Application cannot run without an internet connection
• Particularly good for games
• Selling points
• No device constraints (advanced 3D rendering on any device)
• Easy updates (more like updating a website)
• Instant On (no download, no loading screen)
• Improved security (no more pirating games?)
AWS Web Console
• Integration with AWS Marketplace
• New launch UI
• Copy an existing security group to a new one with just one click.
• Choosing a snapshot is one search away.
• Tagging instances now supports auto-complete
RDS supports PostgreSQL Applause
RDS adds supports for PostgreSQL
• Available NOW (beta)
• Version 9.3.1
• Comes with all the PostgreSQL goodies
• PostGIS
• PL/Perl, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl
• Full text search dictionaries
• HStore, JSON
• Still has RDS goodies:
• Multi-AZ
• Provisioned IOPS
• Automatic backups
• VPC support
• Monitoring
• Makes Heroku migration easy
RDS Cross Region
• Can now create cross-region read replicas
• Can promote a read-replica to master later
• Limit 5 read replicas per source
Redshift updates
• Remote loading - put data in over SSH
• HSM support (on premise or CloudHSM)
• Database auditing and logging to S3
• SNS notification for events
• Cross-region snapshot copy
Elastic Beanstalk
• You can now do rolling updates
• Control how updates are propagated when you make changes to environment
• All at once for dev
• Gradual for production
• Allows site to serve traffic
• An alternative to using 2 environments and switching between them
• Things to consider - rollback half way through
New Instance Types
C3 - Compute Optimized instances
• SSDs
• Hardware Hyper-Thread 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge) processor
• Available in: us-east-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, ap-* regions
Instance Name
vCPU Count Total ECU RAM Local
StorageHourly On-
Demand
c3.large 2 7 3.75 GiB 2 x 16 GB $0.15
c3.xlarge 4 14 7 GiB 2 x 40 GB $0.30
c3.2xlarge 8 28 15 GiB 2 x 80 GB $0.60
c3.4xlarge 16 55 30 GiB 2 x 160 GB $1.20
c3.8xlarge 32 108 60 GiB 2 x 320 GB $2.40
G2 - High performance 3D graphics
• Instance type: g2.2xlarge
• NVIDIA GRID™ (GK104 "Kepler") GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), 1,536 CUDA cores and 4 GB of video (frame buffer) RAM
• Intel Sandy Bridge processor running at 2.6 GHz with Turbo Boost enabled, 8 vCPUs (Virtual CPUs)
• 15 GiB of RAM
• 60 GB of SSD storage
I2 - High I/O
• SSDs
• 2.5 GHz intel Xeon E5-2670v2 processors with Turbo mode enabled
• Not available yet
Instance Name vCPU Count RAM Local Storage
i2.large 2 15 GiB 1 x 360 GBi2.xlarge 4 30.5 GiB 1 x 720 GBi2.2xlarge 8 61 GiB 2 x 720 GBi2.4xlarge 16 122 GiB 4 x 720 GBi2.8xlarge 32 244 GiB 8 x 720 GB
DynamoDB
• Global Secondary Indexes
• Coming “within weeks”
• Fine-grain security control
• Useful from JavaScript SDK
• Read/Write directly to DynamoDB from the browser
Breakout Sessions
They Don't Hug Back! Or Why You Need to Stop Worrying about Prodweb001 and Start Loving i-98fb9856
• Chris Munns - Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services
• Martin Rhoads - Site Reliability Engineer with Airbnb
• Slides
• http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/stop-worrying-about-prodweb001-and-start-loving-i98fb9856-arc201-aws-reinvent-2013
• YouTube
• http://youtu.be/lQUdjPBJX5c
Maximizing EC2 and Elastic Block Store Disk Performance
• Miles Ward - Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture with Amazon Web Services
• Doug Grismore - Director, Operations and Site Reliability Engineering with Twitter
• Slides
• http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/stg302-28617072
• YouTube
• http://youtu.be/cGF4cnwFMWY
A Day in the Life of a Billion Packets
• Eric Brandwine - Sr. Principal Security Engineer with Amazon Web Services
• Slides
• http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-billion-packets-cpn401-aws-reinvent-2013
• YouTube
• http://youtu.be/Zd5hsL-JNY4
Larry will now cover…
• Amazon Kinesis
• Real-time processing of streamed data
• Limited preview
• AWS CloudTrail
• Stores an audit log of all API calls made to your AWS account in S3
• Region specific (available in us-east-1 and us-west-2)
Thank you!
Slides available at: http://www.slideshare.net/pas256/aws-reinvent2013recap!!!!!Peter Sankauskas Answers for AWS@pas256 @Answers4AWS http://answersforaws.com/
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